A mixed-income apartment complex in Chicago seeks to foster community ties, enliven the street, and eschew design conventions that typify—and stigmatize—affordable housing.
At a press briefing in New York, organizers detailed exhibition programming and unveiled the list of more than 100 participating international architecture firms.
An Art Deco office building beyond the Loop is reimagined as an urbane hotel by Antunovich Associates with Nicolas Schuybroek Architects and Marc Merckx.
To make way for the University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons, the school demolished Harry Weese’s 1960 Pierce Tower, who’s stacked bays and neo-mansard crown showcased some of the University of Chicago’s least confident mid-century architecture on the famously Collegiate Gothic campus.
Sources may have confirmed Wednesday that the Obama Presidential Center was to be located in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side, but today the President himself made it official.